Living Bodies Objects is a 3-year project with University Leeds funded by the Wellcome Trust designed to test and extend the boundaries of Medical Humanities research.
“The Wellcome-funded project LivingBodiesObjects: Technologies and the Spaces of Health is partnering with Interplay National Sensory Theatre, an innovative theatre company that employs sensory engagement in ways that highlight the audience’s embodiment as much as the performers’. LBO and Interplay are exploring techniques and technologies for developing sensory theatre to its fullest, most inclusive potential. We are currently co-developing a sensory theatre experience inspired by robot care fiction, such as Kazuo Ishiguro’s 2021 novel Klara and the Sun, that explores the continuity across our title terms (LivingBodiesObjects), challenges human/technology distinctions, and imagines how technologies might re-shape human health and wellbeing.”
Professor Amelia DeFalco